i spent a bunch of time sampling this back when it came out in 2015
Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Piped Music Collection on the Internet Archive
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you Captain Pedantic. HN threads won't be the same without nitpicking and pedantry. I think by "ambient" you mean piped music, elevator music, Muzak(tm). Because Eno ain't no elevator music.
>Because Eno ain't no elevator music. In keeping with the pedantic nitpicking, I think Eno might actually disagree and say that his music could be elevator music. In the liner notes[0] for 'Ambient 1: Music for Airports', he writes that "Ambient Music must be able to accomodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting." But, speaking for myse…
Completely off topic: Music for Airports is a great album.
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#83i spent a bunch of time sampling this back when it came out in 2015 https://curatorbeats.bandcamp.com/album/k-m-r-t
This is lovely. Thank you.
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#84Just a heads up for any 1974 shoppers: there's no smoking on the sales floor. You have to be over by the cafe.
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#85Fun that some of the messages in-between the songs are for things like security being called to go to a particular zone of the store. I remember hearing those as a kid and wondering who got busted, never thinking that the announcement might be as fake as the security cameras.
You just blew my mind. It was very convincing hearing these as a kid.
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#86Oh man. Exurban wastelands of Nowhere, America. Endless fluorescent popcorn ceilings and despair. Is there another word for nostalgia, where instead of missing something you remember fondly, you are grateful to have escaped from something that seemed to drain your soul? I remember these places having an almost Dementor-like effect on me long before I was old enough to be a coastal elite or a classist or an architectu…
Wonderful take. Thanks for sharing.
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#87Fun that some of the messages in-between the songs are for things like security being called to go to a particular zone of the store. I remember hearing those as a kid and wondering who got busted, never thinking that the announcement might be as fake as the security cameras.
You just blew my mind. It was very convincing hearing these as a kid.
As a kid? Kroger stores regularly play these loudspeaker "Security check, zone blue" announcements to this day in certain stores about the country.
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#88In case anyone is looking, here is a Christmas tape to get you in the mood. It even includes the ads! https://archive.org/details/KmartDecember1992
What I find kinda strange in American Culture (as an American) is that the rest of the pop music tapes are pretty much just period music that no modern kid would recognize. The Christmas tape is a 100% known landscape. We let hits die but Christmas music is eternal.
One could argue that the whole point of traditions like Christmas is to have comforting, repeated experiences like listening to the same music each year, something to ground your mortality in timeless rituals that started before you were born and (you hope) will continue after you die.
That said, there is lots of Christmas pop that doesn't make it into the canon. I have no recollection at all of the first song on the Christmas tape, and i was around then (and going to K-Mart with my mom).
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#89In case anyone is looking, here is a Christmas tape to get you in the mood. It even includes the ads! https://archive.org/details/KmartDecember1992
What I find kinda strange in American Culture (as an American) is that the rest of the pop music tapes are pretty much just period music that no modern kid would recognize. The Christmas tape is a 100% known landscape. We let hits die but Christmas music is eternal.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
Touché. Eno could be elevator music then.
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